Senior Principal Project Controls Specialist

Mission Support and Test Services, LLC (MSTS) manages and operates the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).  Our MISSION is to help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by providing high-hazard experimentation and incident response capabilities through operations, engineering, education, field, and integration services and by acting as environmental stewards to the Site’s Cold War legacy.  Our VISION is to be the user site of choice for large-scale, high-hazard, national security experimentation, with premier facilities and capabilities below ground, on the ground, and in the air. (See NNSS.gov for our unique capabilities.) Our 2,750+ professional, craft, and support employees are called upon to innovate, collaborate, and deliver on some of the more difficult nuclear security challenges facing the world today.   

• MSTS offers our full-time employees highly competitive salaries and benefits packages including medical, dental, and vision; both a pension and a 401k; paid time off and 96 hours of paid holidays; relocation (if located more than 75 miles from work location); tuition assistance and reimbursement; and more.  
• MSTS is a limited liability company consisting of Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell), Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs), and HII Nuclear Inc.

This Senior Principal Project Controls Specialist will support multiple high visibility MSTS Projects and Programs through the planning and execution phases. Accurate Project planning and reporting from an experienced Project Controls professional will facilitate successful Project execution in support of the National Security Mission.

Key Responsibilities

• As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), this role will provide DOE Order 413.3b and EVM compliance guidance to the project team.
• Ensure Earned Value Management (EVM) process compliance in accordance with company EVM system description.
• Planning, Scheduling, and Budgeting:
  • Work with managers and customers to develop a statement of work (WBS; Dictionary, objectives, assumptions, and deliverables), resource estimate, and a baseline schedule for the project to include leading WBS development and schedule development workshops.
  • Perform and analyze schedule health assessments.
  • Prepare and analyze vertical and horizontal schedule integration and maintain project forecast schedules and estimate to complete utilizing earned value techniques.
  • Monitor project budget, management reserve and undistributed budget.
  • Develop, maintain, and monitor performance baselines.
  • Prepare and distribute proper Work Authorizations; ensuring that Work Authorizations are approved prior to execution of project scope.
  • Management and facilitation of the incorporation of subcontractor schedules into the Project Master Schedule.
  • Contribute to project estimate development and leads incorporation into the P6 schedule(s).
  • Participate in project risk development and monitor the project risk register.
• Accounting Considerations:
  • Review actual cost data to ensure accuracy, and provide corrections as necessary.
  • Monitor project commitments for accuracy and manage monthly accruals.
  • Create and monitor use of project charge numbers.
• Analysis and Management Reports:
  • Identify and document project variances, recommend corrective actions and assist in the preparation of monthly project variance reports.
  • Maintain project corrective action log, project baseline budget logs.
  • Analyze project resource usage and recommends adjustments when needed.
  • Assist in and facilitate the management estimate at completion and maintain the best case, worse case, and most likely scenarios.
  • Prepare and analyze all required company reporting.
  • Perform Critical Path and Float analyses and report results to project management.
  • Maintain trend program in support of monthly estimates to complete.
  • Prepare monthly project reports and upload of Headquarters reporting.
• Revision and Data Maintenance:
  • Work with project manager to develop and process baseline change requests (BCRs), and ensure compliance with the change management process
  • Maintain and monitor management reserve
  • Participate in project surveillances and audits.
• Assess customer needs and works to meet them. 
• Mentor and train junior-level Project Controls Specialists.
• Learn functionality of new or updated project controls system.
• Support development of Company Directives and/or Desktop Instructions to support project controls initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Math or Business-related field and at least 12 years of professional level exper